region:northern morocco

Was Juan Goytisolo really an anti-orientalist?
▻http://africasacountry.com/2018/02/was-juan-goytisolo-really-an-anti-orientalist

On June 5 last year, the Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo was buried in the Spanish cemetery of Larache in northern Morocco, his tomb overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and right next to that of Jean Genet. Spanish and Moroccan officials, and local writers and artists, paid homage to the Spanish author, reading extracts of his work. An outpouring in the Moroccan media paid homage to the…

Coming to the aid of drowning migrants? Get ready to be treated like a criminal | Lorena Gazzotti | Opinion | The Guardian

▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/20/aid-drowning-migrants-criminal-activists-ngo-witness-brutal-border-poli

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Activists and NGOs defending migrants’ rights will remember 2017 as the year in which they were targeted by legal systems in Europe and north Africa. Take the case of Helena Maleno Garzón, a Spanish journalist and human rights advocate. You may not have heard of her. But authorities on both sides of the strait of Gibraltar know her well.

Maleno, who has been living in Tangier since 2001, will on 27 December face a hearing as part of an investigation by Moroccan authorities into her alleged collusion with smuggling and human-trafficking networks. Central to the case are the calls that Maleno has been making to the Spanish and the Moroccan coastguards since 2007 about boats in distress in the strait and the Alboran Sea. Because of their proximity to migrant communities in northern Morocco, Maleno and other activists regularly receive distress calls, and they relay the signals to naval authorities, a vital step in ensuring migrants’ rescue.

#migrations #asile #criminalisation

Europe’s Other Border Crisis

In northern Morocco there are two coastal cities separated from the rest of the African continent. Melilla and Ceuta are autonomous Spanish ports, European enclaves. For scores of African migrants these cities represent a gateway to Europe. Migrants routinely attempt to scale the walls that surround each city, but the dangerous climb is just one of many obstacles they must pass to succeed. Death and injury are common in this scramble to reach Europe by any means necessary.

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▻http://lacuna.org.uk/migration/europes-other-border-crisis
#Maroc #frontières #Espagne #Ceuta #Melilla #Gourougou

The Big Business of Europe’s Migration Crisis.

The EU’s migration policy has produced a lucrative “illegality industry” that is prolonging the emergency it was put in place to end.

After three months in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, Famara (who requested his last name not be used) left for the Gourougou mountain forest of northern Morocco. Wearing nothing more than shorts, a blue jean jacket, and flip-flops, the diminutive Senegalese man joined a makeshift camp comprised of dozens of West Africans hiding in the mountains between the town of Nador and Spain’s North African city of Melilla. Stays at the camp were temporary. Those with opportunities to move on did so while new migrants making their way north arrived daily. Many in the camp were injured, and all were hungry. None were prepared for life in the woods.

▻http://www.sapiens.org/culture/migration-crisis-illegality-industry
#business #asile #migrations #réfugiés #frontières #fermeture_des_frontières #passeurs

The Chairman of #Melilla

It is a warm summer night on Gurugu Mountain in northern Morocco, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas rings out from an old cell phone. The man everyone knows as The Chairman answers and disappears into the darkness, moving deftly over the rocky terrain.

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Europe’s Other Border Crisis

In northern Morocco there are two coastal cities separated from the rest of the African continent. #Melilla and #Ceuta are autonomous Spanish ports, European enclaves. For scores of African migrants these cities represent a gateway to Europe. Migrants routinely attempt to scale the walls that surround each city, but the dangerous climb is just one of many obstacles they must pass to succeed. Death and injury are common in this scramble to reach Europe by any means necessary.

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The Wall of Europe

In northern Morocco there are two coastal cities cut-off from the rest of the African continent. #Melilla and #Ceuta are autonomous Spanish ports—European exclaves—and for scores of African migrants they represent a gateway to Europe. Migrants routinely attempt to scale the walls that surround each city, but the dangerous climb is just one of many obstacles they must pass if they are to be successful. Death and injury are common in this scramble to reach Europe by any means necessary.

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At a Spanish Border, a Coordinated Scramble

MELILLA, Spain — More than 1,000 African migrants rushed toward the high fences topped with razor wire. They were met by the Moroccan police, who, with the support of the Spanish military police and a Spanish helicopter, thwarted their plan to scale the fences and enter Europe through this tiny Spanish enclave that clings to northern Morocco.

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#assaut #migration #asile #réfugiés #Melilla #frontière #Maroc #Espagne